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Cathlete
Oh, I'm bummed! SO BUMMED! But I have to go back on my word of meeting up with you all next week! UGH!
But here's what's going on. My BF's ex-wife's dad is having some serious medical problems right now. He has cancer and needs to start treatments ASAP, but when they put him thru the battery of medical tests to make sure he can HANDLE the chemo, they found severe blockage of his arteries. This is VERY bad because if they give him chemo in this condition, the chemo will not make its way out of and away from the heart, causing even MORE serious problems. So, he underwent emergency open heart, triple bypass surgery yesterday. He's 73 years old and we were concerned he wouldn't make the surgery. 8 hours later, he came out of surgery and today is awake and recovering.
What does this have to do with me?
The ex was scrambling to find after school care for her son (with her new husband) who is in the same grade as MY younger DS. Her dad, who lives next door to them, usually takes her son after school till the older kids get home, but now he obviously won't be able to do this. I heard that and KNEW I wouldn't allow that to happen. So I offered to have his busstop after school switched to OUR stop, so he's now coming home with my kids. I can't, in good conscious (how do you spell that word), take 2 days off next week and leave her in the lurch for 2 days.
So I'm backing out of our get together next week. I'm sad, but know that I'm doing what's best for this child. He's rather confused right now...about what's going on with his grandfather, what's going on with school and the buses, etc. Fortunately for him, he hasn't had to deal with any kind of medical 'things' like this, so it's all new to him. I really need to be here for him AND for the ex....I feel for her since this is her dad and I know how hard it is as a family member/care taker.
Please forgive me......I'll miss you!
Gayle
But here's what's going on. My BF's ex-wife's dad is having some serious medical problems right now. He has cancer and needs to start treatments ASAP, but when they put him thru the battery of medical tests to make sure he can HANDLE the chemo, they found severe blockage of his arteries. This is VERY bad because if they give him chemo in this condition, the chemo will not make its way out of and away from the heart, causing even MORE serious problems. So, he underwent emergency open heart, triple bypass surgery yesterday. He's 73 years old and we were concerned he wouldn't make the surgery. 8 hours later, he came out of surgery and today is awake and recovering.
What does this have to do with me?
The ex was scrambling to find after school care for her son (with her new husband) who is in the same grade as MY younger DS. Her dad, who lives next door to them, usually takes her son after school till the older kids get home, but now he obviously won't be able to do this. I heard that and KNEW I wouldn't allow that to happen. So I offered to have his busstop after school switched to OUR stop, so he's now coming home with my kids. I can't, in good conscious (how do you spell that word), take 2 days off next week and leave her in the lurch for 2 days.
So I'm backing out of our get together next week. I'm sad, but know that I'm doing what's best for this child. He's rather confused right now...about what's going on with his grandfather, what's going on with school and the buses, etc. Fortunately for him, he hasn't had to deal with any kind of medical 'things' like this, so it's all new to him. I really need to be here for him AND for the ex....I feel for her since this is her dad and I know how hard it is as a family member/care taker.
Please forgive me......I'll miss you!
Gayle
